Tuesday, 19 June 2012

BNP Charity at stansted House Garden Show.

Sandwiched between the RSPB and a hardware stall, SOTS appeal for
donations and sell wristbands. The two men in the photo were running
the stall.

The Stansted Park Garden Show
which took place over this last Weekend can only be considered a
success by its organisers and exhibitors. Despite the threat of rain,
the Show had a good turnout and I imagine people made a fair bit of
money. However, while shrubbery and gnomes were sold, Soldiers off the Street were collecting donations.

The charity aims to help soldiers who have been made homeless after
tours of duty. While nothing may be wrong with this to the average
reader, the charity has been to have links with the fascist British
National Party. The Charity was founded by former-BNP bigwig Bill
Murray, who was their former Secretary for Wales.

An Observer report
demonstrates how the charity has not only failed to help soldiers, but
those soldiers who raised concerns about their activities were subjected
to hate campaigns.
In 2009, Nick Griffin said, “It’s politically beneficial for us to be
seen with these organisations. We are also involved in other veteran
organisations such as Help for Heroes and Soldiers off the Street. It
definitely doesn’t hurt the party to be connected to these groups.
Nothing British, a conservative anti-BNP campaign group also claimed that the SOTS had links with the EDL.

When these links surfaced in the media, Bill Murray threatened to close the group if the negative coverage continued.
It is not known, but highly unlikely that the organiser’s of the
Garden Show were aware of the links between SOTS and the BNP. An email
has been sent to them notifying them of this, and any reply will
be reported here.
From their Facebook group,
it appears that they attend a few events such as this. If they are
attending an event near you, contact the organisers to notify them of
their links.